I've heard of folks "converting" to the other's faith before, either to get married, or by just choice. Did you or your DH? Or was matching faith important to you, a "requirement" before you'd even consider marriage or even dating?

My DH and I share different beliefs, and in all honesty, don't really talk much about it . I have mine, he has his. I know for me personally, I would not have been able to date or marry a man who was a very strong, evangelical type Christian, and I'm not even sure about just someone of any faith that puts emphasis on conversion (say, most Christian faiths, Muslim faiths, etc). I know it just wouldn't work.

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I was raised Catholic, DH was raised non-denominational. When we started dating we tried both churches equally but I loved his church so that is where we were married and where we are members!!

We are both really active in our faith and pray together often, we talk about God and what he is doing in our lives everyday, but I agree with you that I do not think that I could have married someone that was not in the same spiritual position as I was.... that would be hard!!

I was raised Catholic, but fell in love with DH, who is a spiritual person, but not a religious person, per say. I told him I would never try to get him to convert, and I never did. I told him if he chose to do so, it was his decision, but I'd love him either way. After our second child was born and baptized, dh decided he wanted to convert. I think he wanted our whole family to share the same religion.

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my husband was raise pentecostal but never went to church when he was older....before we married I went to church with his family and really loved it...so I got saved in '90 before we married...'92.. and went to church on and off for the next 2/3 yrs without dh and then he got saved. so neither one of us converted....now he is our preacher....lol....

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No. We neither of us practiced any religion before we married. Now we are both Christian.

Dh and I are both Catholic. I never would have dated him if he wasn't since there was no chance I would ever convert and I have never been interested in converting anyone.

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I was raised Catholic and switched to Methodist after marrying dh for several reasons, and I was disowned by my grandfather for not marrying a Catholic. Silly. My grandparents were in a loveless marriage and I'm fairly certain the only thing they had in common was they were both Catholics.

I grew up Lutheran. DH grew up going to his grandma's church occasionally, but not that often. He was a believer, although not really practicing. This made it easy for us since he was happy to join my church, get married in my church, etc. Shortly after our second ds was baptised, DH got baptised too!

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We both switched denominations. I was raised RLDS, he Seventh Day Baptist. We are now Presbyterian. I consider myself non-denominational, this just happens to be where we landed so to speak. We'd change again if the right congregation came along (if we moved or something like that). We've also attended Methodist churches, and a few others. We choose by congregation more than denomination (within reason).

We were both Christians and met at church.

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Jodie....Wife to Andrew (1995)
Mommy to Riley (2000) and Wyatt (2003)